
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump accidentally screws the GOP's entire Biden impeachment effort
Desperate to create a counter-narrative during his first impeachment, the ex-grifter in chief got his DOJ to declare that impeachment inquiries are invalid unless they’re preceded by a full floor vote in the House. Now the Biden administration is preparing to use the “Trump Rule” against the GOP after Speaker McCarthy unilaterally launched an impeachment without holding a vote – because he doesn't have them. We swear - the only thing preventing Republicans from fulfilling their authoritarian fantasies is their own incompetence...and of course, the lack of anything even resembling evidence of wrongdoing. [RETWEET THAT!]
Take Action: Tell Congress to reject Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Biden impeachment

John Fetterman torches Kevin McCarthy over impeachment announcement
Despite months of dog-and-pony-show hearings turning up nothing but nude screen shots of Hunter Biden sex tapes and so-called "informants" and "whistleblowers" who failed to deliver the goods, Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry anyway. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman summed it up the desperate move like only he can, correctly characterizing the inquiry as a "big circle jerk on the fringe right,” before telling the GOP, “Go ahead, do it. I dare you.”
Take Action: Investigate Jared Kushner’s crooked new investments!

Trump's biggest lifeline in trial quickly evaporates
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Bad news for Trump.
Lawmakers mortified as GOP senator reads graphic sex scenes aloud
Louisiana senator John Kennedy used his time during a televised senate hearing on Illinois’ anti-book ban law to publicly read graphic sex scenes from two pro-LGBTQ books into the record, excerpts which included words like “masturbate,” “cock,” “strap-on harness,” and “dildo.” His point – if he had one – was completely lost in the sheer cringe of the stunt.
Take Action: Demand Congress impose an ethics code on Trump’s corrupt Supreme Court Justices!
Child poverty rate jumps thanks to Joe Manchin and every single Republican
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that poverty spiked last year, with child poverty more than doubling from 5.2% to a shocking 12.4%. The sharp increases are almost entirely due to the canceled expansion of the Child Tax Credit enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic but killed by West Virginia “Democrat” Joe Manchin in 2022, who joined with every single Republican Senator to gut the social safety net and heap more hardship on America's working families. His commitments to big pharma and big oil, however, remain bulletproof.
Take Action: Tell President Biden to protect access to Medicaid!

Lauren Boebert kicked out of “Beetlejuice” musical
One wouldn't think it's too much to ask that your elected representatives not vape at the theater or behave so disruptively that she gets asked to leave, but then again, apparently there's a LOT that is "too much to ask" of Lauren Boebert. Maybe she thinks that EVERY large public gathering is the State of the Union. [RETWEET THAT!]
Take Action: Tell Congress to act NOW to protect our kids from shootings this school year!
Trump plotted privately with House Republicans on Biden impeachment
The 4-times indicted ex-president has been meeting secretly with GOP leadership in recent weeks to coordinate today's announcement by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy that Republicans are launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Elise Stefanik, Chair of the House GOP conference, and shadow party leader Marjorie Taylor Greene have been meeting with him regularly, often at his private Bedminster golf club. Now it makes sense why McCarthy’s live-on-camera announcement felt more like a hostage declaring his captors are treating him well.

Winning one open Arizona seat is key to taking back the House
Yassamin Ansari for Congress: Winning in Arizona means we get our majority back — and losing means that some of the most unhinged election-denying, democracy-hating Trumpers in the country will be headed to Washington. Yassmin Ansari is a fantastic candidate running for Congress in a crucial Arizona seat to make sure we deliver President Biden a new majority for his second term! Can you chip in to help keep Trump's most radical minions out of office?
Ivy League law professor Invites White nationalist to Campus—Again
The controversial Amy Wax teaches a class called “Conservative and Political Legal Thought” at the University of Pennsylvania, and she's invited the hood-off white supremacist Jared Taylor to speak in late November. In 2018, Wax was barred from teaching first-year law students after she said in an interview that she’d never seen a Black student graduate near the top of the class. She then went on Tucker Carlson's show, where she declared that "Blacks" and other "non-western" groups harbor "resentment, shame, and envy" against western people for their "outsized achievements and contributions." She should be barred from teaching any students.
Probe launched into union chiefs caught laughing about woman killed by cops
A Seattle watchdog agency has launched an investigation into the city’s police union leaders after a union vice-president was captured on bodycam footage laughing and joking about the death of 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula, who was struck and killed in a crosswalk by a police cruiser going *40mph* above the speed limit. The video shows the officer saying her life had “limited value” and that the city should “just write a check," showing just how little he cares for the people he's supposed to be serving and protecting.
Republican Senator says windmills are killing whales
First they're giving us cancer, now they're killing whales. What AREN'T those dastardly windmills responsible for? [RETWEET THAT!]
Minnesota lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from ballot under 14th amendment
The movement to kick Trump off the ballot for inciting insurrection adds its second state to the list. Lawyers, let's keep them coming!

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